The Use of Greek in Early Roman Galilee: The Inscriptional Evidence Re-examined

Autor:	Scott D. Charlesworth
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	060303 religions & theology History 060102 archaeology media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies 06 humanities and the arts Ancient Greek 0603 philosophy ethics and religion language.human_language Literacy Currency language 0601 history and archaeology Classics media_common
Zdroj:	Journal for the Study of the New Testament. 38:356-395
ISSN:	1745-5294 0142-064X
DOI:	10.1177/0142064x15621650
Popis:	Based on numbers alone, Greek had as much currency in first- as it did in second- and third-century Galilee. But measuring the use of Greek by calculating the number of inscriptions in each century is flawed methodology. This is because the inscriptional evidence is patchy and unrepresentative (as the very few inscriptions in Aramaic/Hebrew demonstrate). Scholars must first understand the various kinds of ancient bilingualism, then look for indications of these, including (written) Greek literacy. Literary and other evidence, especially factors that might encourage bilingualism, such as the influence of the administrative cities of Sepphoris and Tiberias and the surrounding Hellenistic cities, the state of the Galilean economy, and rural-urban dynamics, can then help to fill in the gaps. On the basis of all of the extant evidence, knowledge of Greek was probably quite common, with most people picking it up by force of circumstance rather than through formal instruction.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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